page_title: Acteonidae
section_title: Genera
hierarchical_section_title: Acteonidae / Genera
caption_attribution_description: English: Punctacteon fabreanus (Crosse, 1874) (synonym: Acteon fabreanus Crosse, 1873), a barrel bubble snail from the family Acteonidae; Philippines
context_page_description: Acteonidae, common name the "barrel bubble snails", is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks of the informal group Lower Heterobranchia.
context_section_description: Genera within the family Acteonidae include:
  Genus Acteon Montfort, 1810 - type genus
  † Genus Acteonina d'Orbigny, 1850 
  Genus Bathyacteon Valdés, 2008
  Genus Callostracon Repetto & Bianco, 2012
  Callostracon amabile Watson, 1886
  Callostracon chariis (Watson, 1886)
  Callostracon tyrrhenicum (Smriglio, C. & P. Mariottini, 1996)
  Distribution : Tyrrhenian Sea.
  † Genus Colostracon Hamlin, 1884 
  Genus Crenilabium Cossmann, 1889
  Crenilabium aciculatum Cossman, 1889
  Crenilabium exilis (Jeffreys, 1870)
  Distribution : Florida, Mexico, Eastern Atlantic, Iceland, Mediterranean.
  Length : 8.1 mm
  Description : found at depths of 270 to 2640 m
  Crenilabium pacifica Kuroda & Habe, 1958
  Distribution : Indo-Pacific
  Genus Inopinodon Bouchet, 1975
  Inopinodon azonicus Locard, 1897
  Genus Japonactaeon Taki, 1956
  Genus Liocarenus Harris & Burrows, 1891
  Liocarenus globulinus Forbes, 1844
  Distribution : Atlantic, Mediterranean
  Genus Lissacteon Monterosato, 1890
  Genus Maxacteon Rudman, 1971
  Maxacteon cratericulatus Hedley, 1906
  Distribution : New Zealand
  Maxacteon fabreanus (= Acteon fabreanus) Crosse, 1874
  Distribution : Philippines
  Length : 17–30 mm
  Description : white shell with five whorls, each whorl filled with light brown bands covering the many spirals of each whorl.
  Maxacteon flammeus (= Acteon flammeus) Gmelin, 1791
  Distribution : Red Sea, tropical Indo-West Pacific
  Length : 17 mm
  Description : the headshield is developing secondary tentacles.
  Maxacteon hancocki (synonym: Acteon hancocki) Rudman, 1971
  Maxacteon milleri (synonym: Acteon milleri) Rudman, 1971
  Genus Mysouffa Marcus, 1974
  Mysouffa cumingii (= Acteon mysouffa cumingii) (A. Adams, 1855)
  Distribution : Florida, Brazil
  Length : 20 mm
  Mysouffa turrita (Watson, 1883)
  Distribution : Jamaica, Cuba, Caribbean
  Length : 14 mm
  Description : found at depths of around 700 m
  Genus Neactaeonina Thiele, 1912
  Genus Obrussena Iredale, 1930
  Obrussena bracteata Iredale, 1930
  Distribution : Australia
  Obrussena moeshimaensis T. Habe, 1952
  Distribution : Japan
  Genus Ongleya Finlay & Marwick, 1937
  Genus Ovulacteon Dall, 1889
  Ovulacteon meekii Dall, 1889
  Distribution : Cuba, Bahamas, East Brazil
  Length : 5.5 mm
  Description : found at depths of 360 to 820 m
  Genus Pseudacteon Thiele, 1925. There is also a homonym genus Pseudacteon Coquillett, 1907, arthropods in the family Phoridae 
  Pseudacteon albus Sowerby III, 1873
  Distribution : South Africa
  Pseudacteon pusillus Forbes, 1844
  Distribution : Florida, North Atlantic, Mediterranean
  Length : 11 mm
  Pseudacteon tenellus Loven, 1846
  Pseudactaeon luteofasciatus (Mühlfeldt, 1829): synonym of Acteon tornatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
  Genus Punctacteon Kuroda & Habe, 1961
  Punctacteon amakusaensis T. Habe, 1949
  Distribution : Indo-Pacific
  Punctacteon cebuanus Lan, 1985
  Distribution : Philippines
  Punctacteon eloisae  Abbott, 1973 Eloise’s acteon
  Distribution : Red Sea, Oman.
  Length : 25–38 mm
  Description: sublittoral on sandy bottoms; cream-colored shell with 5 convex whorls, each whorl with many spiral windings; each whorl is filled with red-brown separate patterns with dark brown to black borders; similar to Maxacteon flammea.
  Punctacteon fabreanus  (H. Crosse, 1874)
  Distribution : Philippines
  Length : 17–30 mm
  Description : white shell with five whorls, each whorl filled with light brown bands covering the many spirals of each whorl.
  Punctacteon kajiyamai T. Habe, 1976
  Distribution : Indo-Pacific
  Punctacteon kawamurai T. Habe, 1952
  Distribution : Japan
  Punctacteon kirai T. Habe, 1949
  Distribution : Indo-Pacific off the Philippines
  Length : 20 mm
  Description : shell whitish to brownish; five whorls, first whorl being the largest; each whorl has many spiral windings; outer lip is notched.
  Punctacteon variegatus (synonym: Acteon variegatus) Bruguière, 1789 Pink-spotted acteon
  Distribution : Philippines, West Australia.
  Length : 9–27 mm
  Description : sublittoral on sandy bottoms; convex, cream-colored shell with five whorls, each whorls is covered with transverse pink-colored to light brown patterns, without dark borders; whirls with prominent shoulder.
  Genus Pupa Röding, 1
caption: shell of Maxacteon fabreanus
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